Ida Lupino (1918-1995): “The Only Female Director of Consequence Between Dorothy Arzner and Joan Micklin Silver”

Home , Ida Lupino, Never Fear, Nicholas Musuraca

Ida Lupino (1918-1995): “The only female director of consequence between Dorothy Arzner and Joan Micklin Silver”

Acting

Founded The Filmakers with Collier Young in 1949

Director, screenwriter, producer

Not Wanted (1949)

Never Fear (1949)

Outrage (1950)

Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

The Bigamist (1953)

Television

The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino 1953) Nicholas Musuraca-Cinematography (1892–1975) Cinematographer for two of the film noir seminar films and one from six-week series Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster 1940) Cat People (Jacques Tourneur 1942) Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur 1947) I Remember Mama (George Stevens 1948) The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang 1953)

“I learned a lot from the late George Barnes, a marvelous cameraman.”

Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) & Spellbound (1945) and Meet John Doe (Capra 1941)

the difference maker

Stylized Shadow opens and closes film

Hitch-Hiker’s face obscured in shadow

Low Angle perhaps indicates Roy Collins’ (Edmond O’Brien) potential power

tableau- from tableau vivant (French for “living picture”), at first a stage term for actors frozen and wordless on stage posed for a kind of painterly contemplation by the audience which later becomes a stylistic signature of former storyboard artist Alfred Hitchcock and former stage director Orson Welles.

isolating internal framing

Location Shooting

Visual motif of watching and being watched

The Ending Shots

Jim Morrison’s song “Riders of the Storm” from The Doors1971 album L. A. Woman based on or as least alludes to Billy Cook’s story. Consider the following: There’s a killer on the road/His brain is squirming like a toad Take a long holiday/Let you children play If you give this man a ride/Sweet memories will die